On+The+Tracks

A studio guide to Bruce Springsteen

Welcome to **On The Tracks,** which will hopefully become a definitive guide to Bruce songs (to compliment all the lyric sheets out there) through their not inconsiderable history. These pages concentrate on studio recordings, both official releases and unreleased out-takes and demos.

==PLEASE NOTE - THIS SECTION IS ALWAYS UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!!==

//Click on the links below for details of each album session// Castiles, Steel Mill, Bruce Springsteen Band : Demo : Greetings From Asbury Park : The Wild, The Innocent : Born To Run Darkness On The Edge Of Town : 1979 solo : The River : 1981 solo : Nebraska : Born In The USA : Tunnel Of Love : Human Touch : Lucky Town 1993 solo : Greatest Hits (1995) : The Ghost Of Tom Joad : Tracks : The Rising : The Essential : Devils & Dust : Seeger Sessions Magic : Working On A Dream : The Promise : Wrecking Ball : High Hopes (inc. American Beauty) : The Ties That Bind A guide to the available studio bootlegs is also available: A guide to Studio Bootlegs.

//The tracks are laid out in a timeline with all the out-takes and alternate versions credited with a source recording - if it is available. The officially released version timings are of course sourced from the CDs but the timings are actual and not what would necessarily appear on the CD track time display. Wherever possible the other track times are sourced from CD, then LP and finally tape - there are two main reasons for this//

//1) CDs are easier to use//

//2) More importantly, as long as the source material on the CD was running at the right speed (which is not always the case with the un-official sources) it will remain accurate. Tape speeds vary considerably from deck to deck, and therefore the more a tape is dubbed, or depending on the tape deck used, the greater the potential for speed variation. This accounts for what could be considered major time differentials in exactly the same track in many cases.//

//All tracks are timed for music - count in times (unless they are embedded in the intro) are not included and the chatter that accompanies many outtakes is also not timed.//

//The KEY details the shortened source reference in the Timeline.//

//Additional information, usually cribbed from any source material I can get my hands on will be included where appropriate on each track.//

//Where no timing or source is detailed it means either that I know it exists and haven't got it or that I haven't got round to doing the analysis on the different versions (if any) as yet.//

//New source material is surfacing all the time so these pages will (I hope) never be complete - only as up to date as possible for instance we still have to hear/get our hands on Electric Nebraska or the missing demos from Born To Run or Tunnel or... well it goes on and on.//

//There are a great many other Bruce song titles which are known but I have only included information or reference to them where they are known to exist on a tape source somewhere. Many songs referred to in other works were either never recorded or are never likely to surface.//

//This is always a working document and any other information or queries (or contradictions) are very welcome - E mail me directly at brucebase with any information that is relevant.//

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